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John Bolton shifts Hillary Clinton critique

John Bolton, the former United Nations ambassador, said Monday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handlers have offered few details about her illness to protect her potential 2016 ambition — softening his earlier criticism following Clinton’s hospitalization.

“I didn’t think that (protecting Clinton from Benghazi testimony) was the effort to begin with,” said Bolton, who accused Clinton just this month of having a “diplomatic illness” to dodge hearings on the deadly Sept. 11 attacks in Libya.

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Bolton, turning to 2016 rumors, continued: “I think that they’re trying to walk a fine line that does not affect the potential presidential candidacy that we expect Sen. Clinton to enter into in the near future, after she leaves the State Department. I think it’s the too cute by half approach that’s reflected in the absence of transparency that’s going to end up damaging her and damaging her credibility.”

In another Fox interview earlier this month, Bolton said, “You know, every foreign service officer in every foreign ministry in the world knows the phrase I am about to use. When you don’t want to go to a meeting or conference, or an event, you have a ‘diplomatic illness.’ And this is a diplomatic illness to beat the band.”

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland rejected Bolton’s claims after his first interview, saying he and other conservatives who questioned Clinton’s condition “are people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”

These idiots go on FIX NEWS and say ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING! The downfall of America is largely due to an Australian guy who has bought up our media and using it to poison our politics for his own gain and people like him.

This morning I posted on my facebook page "In a little noticed development, Fox News has determined that Secretary of State Clinton faked a blood clot in her brain to delay testifying about Benghazi." Now Bolton, one of the Fox News idiots responsible for promulgating the "diplomatic illness" baloney can't just admit his error. He has to fault Secretary Clinton's staff for a politically motivated failure to provide him sufficient information to keep him from making a fool of himself. In the process, of course, he makes an even greater fool of himself.

He has to fault Secretary Clinton's staff for a politically motivated failure to provide him sufficient information to keep him from making a fool of himself. In the process, of course, he makes an even greater fool of himself.

Do you suppose John Bolton is man enough to apologize to Hillary Clinton and the White House now that the full scope of the seriousness of her illness is known? To make fun of her in the manner he did was very small and unworthy of him. No wonder why Fox News likes him so much. It's a network he, apparently, fits so well.

I've always thought Bolton was a total tool. The way I see it, his only value to society is as a foil for rational thought and prudent action. His back-pedaling would barely be newsworthy even if it weren't so pathetically predictable.

However, I know that among us hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans, there must be someone out there with the exact opposite opinion from mine on every issue of political substance or style. An "Anti-Me," who thinks John Bolton is a great guy with good ideas. I've got to respect that Anti-Me guy, because he is as interested in the good of our country as I am.

I bet even that guy would have trouble explaining why it's ever a good idea to accuse someone of faking an illness in the first place. No matter how much you think she's trying to cover up. Even if she really was faking. You just end up looking like a tool.

The guy is a weasel and a coward. Like most of his neocon friends, who send our troops to fight and die for his "principles", but was too much of a coward himself to serve. To call this guy a "diplomat" is a joke.